Show Anglomania Due to English Novels The rather ingenious theory has been advanced that Anglomania in New York is the result of the copyright laws As it costs American publishers nothing to issue foreign novels as fast as they come out the result of there being no international inter-national copyright laws the country has been flooded with English novels for years There have been no American authors of consequence so publishers preferred to bring out books for which they had to pay the authors nothing rather than bind them themselves to pay a fixed royalty Therefore nearly every book which the rising generation has read during the past twenty years has narrated the love experiences of Lord Cecil Montmorenci dMontressor and Lady Gwendoline Gladysse Du Nothing in the castles and mansions of England Overlooking the fact that English novelists novel-ists never by any chance give their heroes and heroines English names it is a fact that nowhere can one find such slavish admiration adulation sycophancy sycoph-ancy and toadying love for the British aristocracy as in the average English novel The dearest wish of half the youths of America today is to look and act like the Lord Cecils they have so frequently fre-quently read about |